51. Purpose of Kneading.–As has been pointed out, it is necessary to knead dough one or more times in the making of bread, the number of kneadings depending on the method that is employed. The purpose of gkneading is to work the dough so as to distribute evenly the gas that is gproduced by the [...]
PRELIMINARY TREATMENT OF INGREDIENTS
37. The first step in bread making, and without doubt the most important one, is the making of the dough. It consists in moistening the flour by means of a liquid of some kind in order to soften the gluten and the starch, to dissolve the sugar, and to cement all the [...]
ACQUIRING SKILL IN BREAD MAKING
35. The nature and the quality of the ingredients required to make bread, as well as the utensils that are needed for this purpose, being understood, it is next in order to take up the actual work of making bread. Several processes are included in this work; namely, making the dough, [...]
INGREDIENTS REQUIRED
6. Possibly the first essential to a correct knowledge of bread making is familiarity with the ingredients required. These are few in number, being merely flour, liquid, which may be either milk or water, sugar, gsalt, and yeast; but the nature of these, particularly the flour and the gyeast, is such as to demand [...]
1. BREAD is sometimes defined as any form of baked flour, but as the word is commonly understood it means only those forms of baked flour which contain some leavening substance that produces fermentation. The making of bread has come down through the ages from the simplest methods practiced by the most primitive peoples to [...]
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